LikelyArrow
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One of my favorite game sessions, we played with miniatures, but no map. I was GMing, and we had been playing for several sessions with carefully-laid-out tile maps, but I found designing the adventure around tiles I actually had was a pain and a time-sink, so one session I decided, "Screw it, let's just group the miniatures to show who's next to who." It worked well, and the players loved it. (Unfortunately, the group broke up afterward so there was no follow-up. Since then, my groups have tended to use dry-erasable grid maps with minis.)
I've seen a lot of talk about miniature(+map) play vs. theater of the mind, but I've never run across anyone else who has done minis only. It seems like it splits the difference, allowing a the dungeon to exist in its full glory in the imagination, while providing a visual aid for remembering who is doing what and roughly where they are in relation to each other.
I'm curious if anyone else here has tried this approach?
I've seen a lot of talk about miniature(+map) play vs. theater of the mind, but I've never run across anyone else who has done minis only. It seems like it splits the difference, allowing a the dungeon to exist in its full glory in the imagination, while providing a visual aid for remembering who is doing what and roughly where they are in relation to each other.
I'm curious if anyone else here has tried this approach?